Puck’s Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my ...
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; And when we are ...
I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either hand, I see a river loop and run ...
From the wheel and the drift of Things Deliver us, Good Lord, And we will face the wrath of Kings, ...
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. In deaths ye died I have ...
"Brother Square-Toes"--Rewards and Fairies. If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, You mustn't take my stories for a guide. ...
Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads; And ...
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at ...
For the sake of him who showed One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, Keep the Law the Man-Pack make For thy ...
(Foot-Service to the Hills) In the name of the Empress of India, make way, O Lords of the Jungle, wherever ...
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where eath tooth-point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that ...
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew For she heard a whimper under the ...
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' ...
"Below the Mill Dam" --Traffics and Discoveries Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also ...
Through learned and laborious years They set themselves to find Fresh terrors and undreamed-of fears To heap upon mankind. ALl ...
Who gives him the Bath? "I," said the wet, Rank-Jungle-sweat, "I'll give him the Bath!" Who'll sing the psalms? "We," ...
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets, "Many feet have worn it and the road is old ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
"These were never your true love's eyes. Why do you feign that you love them? You that broke from their ...
I know not in Whose hands are laid To empty upon earth From unsuspected ambuscade The very Urns of Mirth; ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
1914-18 The Babe was laid in the Manger Between the gentle kine -- All safe from cold and danger -- ...
Primitive I ate my fill of a whale that died And stranded after a month at sea. . . . ...
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